New York City health officials are urging some men to get vaccinated against meningitis amid an outbreak that has sickened 22 New Yorkers and killed seven.

The dangerous strain of bacterial meningitis appears to be spreading through sexual encounters between men who meet through websites or smartphone apps, or at bars or parties, according to the Citys health department. More than half of the infected men have had HIV, a virus that attacks the immune system making infections more likely and more severe.

Vaccination is the best defense, City health commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley said in a statement. I urge all men who meet these criteria  regardless of whether they identify as gay  to get vaccinated now and protect themselves from this disease before it is too late.

Bacterial meningitis is an infection of the brains membranous lining, called the meninges. Early symptoms include fever, headache, vomiting, stiff neck and a rash within 10 days of the infection. If left untreated, the disease can cause severe brain damage and even death, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Yes, and I understand CVS and others are demanding their employees disclose their weight and blood glucose levels on a WebMD site or else pay an extra $600/yr in health benefits. But they wouldn’t DARE demand their workers disclose any high risk sexual behaviors, whether they’re gay, straight or switch hitters, engage in.

Zorro, The Gay Blade is a 1981 feature film. This comedy features George Hamilton in a Golden Globenominated dual role as both Don Diego de la Vega (Zorro) and his gay twin brother Bunny Wigglesworth, né Ramon De La Vega.

Call me blasphemous, but I put it right up there with Blazing Saddles. Hamilton’s acting, as well as everyone else in the movie, is comedy gold. And like Blazing Saddles, I doubt if someone came up with this movie today it would get the green light to be made.

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posted on 03/22/2013 3:39:37 PM PDT
by roostercashews
(Having a gun doesn't make you safer, but knowing how to use one does.)

Promiscuous sex with many people over time creates a disease vector, a channel for transmission of infection. This has been known for hundreds of years. There was a time when syphilis could be fatal or drive you crazy, then came penicillin, so woo-hoo, party on dudes and dudesses!

Then came genital herpes, human papilloma virus or genital warts, several others. There was a time when this virtually shut down the sex lives of those who had become infected. With the introduction of anti-virals this became manageable and the taboo went away, woo-hoo, party on dudes and dudesses!

Then came a hideous wasting disease with sores and dementia that was pretty much a death sentence. This one took a long time to show symptoms, which maximized opportunity for infection. It was particularly easily communicable via any sort of contact leading to a “sharing” of bodily fluids. Homosexual men were particularly prone to exposure, due to the literally unclean nature of most of their sexual practices, as well as their wildly rampant promiscuity.

A disease vector on a par with third world mosquitoes, in other words. Was there any taboo that arose? Only briefly, once militancy took hold the vector morphed into victim, countless billions spent for a “cure” and homosexuals elevated to protected class status.

Now, full-blown AIDS stage is seldom reached, this plague with such seeming Old Testament symptoms and repercussions is now “manageable” too. Woo-hoo, party on dudes and, well, dudes?

Could anyone have predicted that yet another fatal disease would find its way into this disease vector par excellence? Oh, gosh, no, never, who’da thunk? Total shock. /s

Bloomberg and his kind inevitable tax, restrict or ban anything that doesn’t lead to a buzz or an orgasm. Anything that does is encouraged or even subsidized, unless it somehow leads to an objective good, such as monogamy and childbirth to married, self-sufficient parents. Then it’s bad again.

They really, really want us all taking leave of our senses as often as possible. Now, why would a politician or bureaucrat want such a thing, lol? Can’t imagine why.

If CVS tells its employees to stop smoking cigars and cigarettes why cant they tell their employees to stop smoking other cylindrical objects? If they tell their overweight employees they have to slim down by eating less why can’t they tell all of their employees to eat less of everything?

Yes, they still have HIV. And the HIV cure that has been touted for about a dozen adults who received aggressive doses of anti-virals still have it; the difference is that the virus didn’t get as big of a toe-hold at the time of infection, so the body can fight it. Some of these people no longer need retro-virals, but they still carry and can spread the disease.
The only “cure” are the children born virus free to infected mothers and the bone marrow transplant patient who receive marrow from someone with genetic immunity with the virus.

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